Fiskar Therapy

Back in March I learned what happens to a person when your blood sugar soars to four times the normal level.  You can’t get enough water, which results in – well – you can guess.  That means you don’t get very much sleep because you’re up 15 times a night, so you are also always tired.  After doing the weekly grocery shopping I needed a two hour nap in the afternoon.  You are always hungry, especially for sweets.   The miracle is that you lose weight – fast.  I lost 8 pounds in two weeks – a new lifetime record for me.

I had been “pre-diabetic” for six years and able to manage life with good diet and exercise.  Then, overnight everything changed.  The doctors and nurses can’t tell me why it happened – it does so your energy is best spent learning about your new lifestyle.

I didn’t need to change diet very much and because the high glucose wracked my body I was ordered to stop exercising until after my blood sugar was under control.  When I was allowed to begin exercising again it was at a snail’s pace, five minutes of walking a day, three days a week.  The plan I was given increased the exercise over an eight week period.

With spring/summer about to break in Wisconsin at my house it means gardening and yard work.  I’ve decided to turn the clock back and mow with a manual lawnmower.  Fiskar’s makes a high tech manual mower that sharpens the blades as it mows and the grass forward rather than back so the grass gets mulched at the same time.

 I’ve divided my lawn into three mini-lawns and it takes about 30 minutes to mow each.  I get work on legs and arms by manually mowing and even work up a sweat.  So, I call this my Fiskar’s Therapy.